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Russell

posted on 25/11/20 at 02:03 PM Reply With Quote
Locost Yahoo Groups

Does anyone remember this https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/locost/info ?

I'm sure many of you, like me, had a huge amount of assistance from the Locost site on Yahoo Groups. Apparently it is no more after 15th December 2020

I haven't been on there since this forum took off and my login is invalid so I've no idea when it was last active. Just reminiscing, remembering the early 2000s when I bought a running MOTd Mk2 Escort donor for £30 and a complete Sierra for £40!





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James

posted on 25/11/20 at 02:46 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Russell
Does anyone remember this https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/locost/info ?

I'm sure many of you, like me, had a huge amount of assistance from the Locost site on Yahoo Groups. Apparently it is no more after 15th December 2020

I haven't been on there since this forum took off and my login is invalid so I've no idea when it was last active. Just reminiscing, remembering the early 2000s when I bought a running MOTd Mk2 Escort donor for £30 and a complete Sierra for £40!


I remember how annoyed I was at another site (this terrible Locostbuilders.co.uk) being created that would cause the knowledge base to be split between 2 area!

It it hadn't been for that group, or this, I wouldn't have ever got the car finished!

And if it wasn't for LB I wouldn't have made some great mates and has some brilliant times.

Oh, and I paid £100 for my crash damaged 2.0i Sierra in 2002. And I think I had to pay to get the shell taken away!

Cheers,
James





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nick205

posted on 25/11/20 at 03:02 PM Reply With Quote
Was never a member (or even aware) of the Yahoo group, just LCB. LCB helped me massively when building my MK Indy (as did the internet in general).

I read the comments about picking Sierra's up cheap back then as well. I did the same, bought my donor MoT fail Sierra and then 2 more Sierras for £40 each, which I stripped and sold as "donor packs". profit to be made back then. Sierras have all but gone now and those that are left have risen in price as well.

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steve m

posted on 25/11/20 at 04:59 PM Reply With Quote
I was a member on that site, although i have long long ago forgotten my sign in!

It was a rather basic forum, like everything from that era Internet wise

And i paid £50 for a very rusty mk2 escort, that when we towed it to my place, i could see more of the road beneath me, than i could in front!!

steve





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theconrodkid

posted on 25/11/20 at 05:06 PM Reply With Quote
was that the one with the Australian mods ?, i got banned from there for having a joke with Chris "the outlaw" Gibbs





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posted on 25/11/20 at 10:31 PM Reply With Quote
I was with you James. I even made a point of not joining this site initially.

I also paid about £125 for my escort. It was in great condition and i still regret what I did to it.

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